Resumen del curso INGLÉS B2
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| Conseguir que los alumnos: Dispongan de los recursos lingüísticos y no lingüísticos necesarios para participar en los intercambios comunicativos con un grado de fluidez, precisión y naturalidad suficientes como para que sus interlocutores no tengan que hacer un esfuerzo especial; Tengan un nivel de conciencia de la lengua que les permite evitar errores que den lugar a malentendidos y utilizan suficientes recursos como para salvar situaciones de ambigüedad y aclarar lo que el interlocutor ha querido decir; Utilicen un repertorio lingüístico amplio, suficiente para expresarse con argumentos y matices, sin errores importantes de formulación y con una pronunciación clara; Consideren el efecto que producen sus comentarios y tienen en cuenta tanto la situación de comunicación como a sus interlocutores para adaptar el registro y el nivel de formalidad a las distintas circunstancias; Dispongan de capacidad lingüística suficiente como para plantear los detalles de un problema, presentar reclamaciones y resolver situaciones conflictivas recurriendo a su capacidad de argumentar y a un lenguaje persuasivo. |
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| UNIT 1 NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance. Compound adjectives GRAMMAR Defi ning and non-defi ning relative clauses. Modals for deduction (past and present) WRITING An informal email PRONUNCIATION Compound adjectives UNIT 2 DOWN-TO-EARTH VOCABULARY Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds GRAMMAR Modals and expressions of probability. Conditionals. Alternatives to IF WRITING An article PRONUNCIATION Contractions. Linking UNIT 3 HOME SWEET HOME VOCABULARY Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework. Phrasal verbs connected to people relations GRAMMAR Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice. Have/Get something done WRITING A report PRONUNCIATION Consonant clusters UNIT 4 A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS VOCABULARY Money. Jobs GRAMMAR Infi nitive versus –ing. Participle clauses WRITING A covering letter PRONUNCIATION Stress shift UNIT 5 CAUGHT RED-HANDED VOCABULARY Crime. Criminals GRAMMAR Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions WRITING An opinion composition PRONUNCIATION How to sound emphatic UNIT 6 OUT AND ABOUT VOCABULARY Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports GRAMMAR Used to, Would. Narrative tenses WRITING A blog post PRONUNCIATION-ED endings UNIT 7 TV OR NOT TV? VOCABULARY Headlines. Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide) GRAMMAR Impersonal report structures. Contrast (despite, in spite of, although…) WRITING A "for and against" composition PRONUNCIATION Contrastive intonation UNIT 8 AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY VOCABULARY Health and illness. Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet GRAMMAR Reported speech. Reporting statements, commands and questions. WRITING A complaint email/letter PRONUNCIATION Homographs. Homophones UNIT 9 NO REGRETS JUST LESSONS LEARNED VOCABULARY Feelings GRAMMAR I wish/If only. Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time WRITING A personal anecdote PRONUNCIATION /s/ – /z/ – /?/ UNIT 10 FACEBOOK = LANGUAGE FACELIFT? VOCABULARY Compounds with –ever. The Internet. Fast Writing GRAMMAR Future perfect and continuous. Use of the article for generalizing WRITING A review PRONUNCIATION Words pronounced diff erently in Spanish/English LISTENING TRANSCRIPTS PER UNIT EXERCISE KEY |